Firefox - quick reaction

[PBMAX]

sorry mike, my fat fingers got me it's " ieview .83 ' I think i had it as eiview...

 

[PBMAX]

Ok folks lets see if I can keep from flipping this one.... i hate win i do dat.....

User Agent Switcher .6 it adds a feature to let firefox mimic other browsers when a site is giving trouble and you don't want to switch browsers just to view a site. That may open in FF but be better viewed with IE or Opera. Works ok... I don't use it often...

 

[MikePA]

Another great extension, particularly for discussion forums, is AutoCopy. Just highlight the text and it's automatically copied to the clipboard.

 

[DaveNay]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Another great extension, particularly for discussion forums, is AutoCopy. Just highlight the text and it's automatically copied to the clipboard. )</font>

Oh the irony......this is the way the highlight/copy/paste concept has worked for years (for ever?) on Linux/UNIX/BSD/etc systems (specifically The X Windowing System GUI), and now it is being 'discovered' by Windows users.

Welcome to the darkside MikePA /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Dave

 

[MikePA]

<font color="blue"> Welcome to the darkside MikePA </font>
Wait a minute, I thought Microsoft was the dark side and Linux, Xandros and Linspire (aka Lindows) were the light side? /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Actually, I've switched all my PCs to use Firefox. I've tried most of the alternatives, e.g., Opera, Avant, and Firefox is a keeper. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[GerardC]

When I boot up, IE always starts and goes to home my page. Can this be disabled? I, too, prefer Firefox. G

 

[MikePA]

<font color="blue"> When I boot up, IE always starts and goes to home my page. </font>
This means IE is in your start up folder. While it depends on the version of Windows you're running....
Start
Settings
Taskbar & Start Menu...
Advanced
Advanced

This brings up a Windows Explorer session with the Start Menu highlighed

Click on the + just to the left of Start Menu
Select Startup

There should be a shortcut to IE there.

 

[Dargo]

I haven't tried anything except the Foxfire Browser, but it is great!

 

[GerardC]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( <font color="blue"> When I boot up, IE always starts and goes to home my page. </font>
This means IE is in your start up folder. While it depends on the version of Windows you're running....
Start
Settings
Taskbar & Start Menu...
Advanced
Advanced

This brings up a Windows Explorer session with the Start Menu highlighed

Click on the + just to the left of Start Menu
Select Startup

There should be a shortcut to IE there. )</font>

I checked my startup menu and it's not listed.

I think I should've said, "When I go online". G

 

[MikePA]

Have you made Firefox your default browser?

 

[GerardC]

I'm not sure /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif. How do I go about checking/doing this? G

 

[MikePA]

In Firefox;

Tools
Options
General

Fourth option.

 

[Inspector507]

<font color="blue"> n Firefox;

Tools
Options
General

Fourth option. </font>

My fourth optin is Download Manager History

I do have FireFox as my default, when the box popped up asking if I wanted it to be, I clicked yes.

 

[DaveNay]

Who is your ISP? Some ISPs (Juno, NetZero, PeoplePC) use a customer dialing and authenticating program. I have found that most of these are hard wired to launch IE after they complete the log-in process.

I don't know of a way around these, other than to attempt to configure a standard Windows dial-up device.

Dave

 

[thcri]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( When I boot up, IE always starts and goes to home my page. Can this be disabled? I, too, prefer Firefox. G )</font>

If you have nothing in your start up group then you may have a virus or someone is using your computer?? I had one at work that would start up IE all the time and we found out there was a virus on that computer and it was sending out emails from someone on my behalf /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Norton Corporate Edition did not find it. So you many want to dig a bit deeper.

murph

 

[Glenn9643]

I've been using Firefox since mid-December, about the time Don started this thread. A few days after installing I ran "Ad-aware SE and as usual it found about thirty files that I deleted. These apparently were left-overs from my IE days. I ran Ad-Aware this afternoon with NO problems found. That's a pleasant addition to the fact that Firefox has stopped my pop-ups that used to bother me on some other sites. I only have good things to say for it so far! Thanks for the recommendations.